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Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home

Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues facing consumers, providers, and policy makers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents, their

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Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain citizens, and the impotency of government in an increasingly globalized world. By presenting lively ruminations on his life as a Haitian immigrant, Georges Eugene Fouron—along with Nina Glick Schiller, whose own family history stems from Poland and Ru

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Simple-to-use touchscreen, with audio and built-in Wi-Fi – Most-advanced E Ink display, now with multi-touch – New sleek design – 8% lighter, 11% smaller, holds 3,000 books – Text-to-speech, plus audio books and mp3s – Built in Wi-Fi – Get books in 60 seconds – Massive t book selection, over 800,000 titles are .99 or less – New – Borrow Kindle books from your public library

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Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman’s Search for Home

This is a true and touching story of one Chinese woman’s search for home. It is also an inspiring book about human yearning for a better life. To escape poverty, Flora Li fought her way through the education system and became one of the few women to get into the prestigious Hong Kong University. When the Japanese invaded, she fled to unoccupied China, where she met her future husband, the son of China’s finance minister (later deputy prime minister). She thought she had found the ideal husband,

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Castaway Kid: One Man’s Search for Hope and Home by R. B. Mitchell (2007,…

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Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee

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